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No. 679,900. l Patante d Au 6,190l.

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DISPLAY HDOK.

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1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN LA BURT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO ALBERT E. SPENCER AND HENRY A. KESSEL, OF SAME PLACE.

DISPLAY HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,900, dated August 6, 1901.

V Application filed February 26, 1901. Serial No. 48,920. (No model.)

v To otZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN LA BURT, of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Display-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hooks to serve as supports for manufactured articles as displayed in shop-windows and it consists in the features of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, is a perspective view of my invention, which consists of a wire hook adapted to be suspended upon a suitable support and having at its other end a clamp for engaging the article to be exhibited and an intermediate holder for a price-card.

As shown, the device is made up of two parts, the hook A, for engaging a support, and the clamp member B, suspended upon the hook and retained thereon by means of the head 2. The clamp member is made up of a single piece of spring-wire, formed at the top with a spiral eye 3 and at its bottom with a similar eye 4, through both of which the hook A is passed. The side portions (1 and b of the clamp member are substantially parallel with each other and terminate, respectively, in circular eyes 5 and 6, which serve as the clamping jaws. The part B has an interme-' diate spiral 7, which serves as a price-card holder.

In use the article to be exhibited is engaged by the jaws 5 and 6 and the whole supported by means of the hook A upon a rod or other suitable device, while a price-carrying card may be inserted in the spiral cell, the clamp member turning freely upon the shank of the hook A.

I claim- A display-hook comprisingin combination, a hook member and a clamp member, the latter being formed of a single piece of wire bent upon itself, the ends thereof serving as the jaws of the clamp, which are held normally closed by the resiliency of the wire, a spiral formed in the wire on one side of the clamp member adapted to receive a price-card, and spiral eyes formed in the wire at the top and bottom of the clamp member engaged by the hook member and serving as a swivel connection therefor.

Signed at New York city this 20th day of February, 1901.

JOHN LA BURT.

Witnesses:

ROBERT J. RUDD, J r., E. B. ECKER. 

